Devo Live 1980
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Released | August 30, 2005[1] | |||
Recorded | August 17, 1980 | |||
Venue | Phoenix Theater, Petaluma, California | |||
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Label | Target Video | |||
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DEVO Live 1980 is a live album and video DualDisc release by American new wave band Devo, released by Target Video in 2005.
Background
The release documents a performance by the band filmed on August 17, 1980, during their Freedom of Choice tour, when the band was gaining mainstream success on the strength of the Freedom of Choice album and their hit single, "Whip It". It was shot by director/cameraman Joe Reis and his Target Video team at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, California, using three video cameras. Bassist/songwriter/vocalist Gerald V. Casale provided the following note for the DualDisc's back cover: "This lone artifact offers indisputable evidence that in 1980 Devo had reached a turning point. We were no longer just art monsters, we were mainstream performers too."[3]
The setlist is similar to that of the full DEV-O Live album (as released by Rhino Records' Rhino Handmade imprint in 1999 and as a regular Rhino CD release in 2005), which was recorded within a few days of this concert. The DVD side of the DualDisc features bonus video footage of Devo opening for themselves at the M-80 Festival as "Dove, the Band of Love".[3]
A short clip of the band performing "Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)" from this concert was previously seen on the band's 2004 DVD release Live in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Release
Devo Live 1980 was first released on July 12, 2005.[2] The DualDisc release is available in both jewel case (CD) and Amaray (DVD) packaging. Separate CD and DVD editions were also issued.
Track listing
DVD side
- "Freedom of Choice Theme Song"
- "Whip It"
- "Snowball"
- "It's Not Right"
- "Girl U Want"
- "Planet Earth"
- "S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)"
- "Secret Agent Man"
- "Pink Pussycat"
- "Blockhead"
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- "Uncontrollable Urge"
- "Mongoloid"
- "Be Stiff"
- "Gates of Steel"
- "Freedom of Choice"
- "Jocko Homo"
- "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA"
- "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy"
- "Come Back Jonee"
- "Tunnel of Life"
- "Devo Corporate Anthem"
CD side
- "Whip It"
- "Snowball"
- "It's Not Right"
- "Girl U Want"
- "Planet Earth"
- "S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)"
- "Secret Agent Man"
- "Pink Pussycat"
- "Blockhead"
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- "Uncontrollable Urge"
- "Mongoloid"
- "Be Stiff"
- "Gates of Steel"
- "Freedom of Choice"
- "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA"
- "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy"
- "Come Back Jonee"
Personnel
- Devo
- Mark Mothersbaugh – vocals, keyboards, guitar
- Gerald V. Casale – vocals, bass, bass keyboards
- Bob Mothersbaugh – vocals, lead guitar
- Bob Casale – rhythm guitar/lead guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Alan Myers – drums
- Technical
- Grata Video – producer
- Mike Varga – editor
- Geoff Falasca – editor
- James W. Kelley – animator
- John Joh – graphic design
- Joe Reis – executive producer
- Fred Seaman – executive producer
- Jackie Sharp – co-producer
- Gerald V. Casale – liner notes
- Greg Prato – liner notes
- Bob Casale – CD mastering
References
- ^ "Devo - Live 1980". MVD Entertainment Group. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
- ^ a b c AllMusic review
- ^ a b c Devo Live 1980 (DualDisc liner notes). San Francisco: Target Video. 2005. DR-4442.
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External links
- MVD's page on Devo Live 1980
- Club Devo – Official website
- Devo Live Guide – Comprehensive guide to Devo's live performances.
- v
- t
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- Bob Casale
- Alan Myers
- Jim Mothersbaugh
- Bob Lewis
- Fred Weber
- Rod Reisman
- David Kendrick
albums
- Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978)
- Duty Now for the Future (1979)
- Freedom of Choice (1980)
- New Traditionalists (1981)
- Oh, No! It's Devo (1982)
- Shout (1984)
- Total Devo (1988)
- Smooth Noodle Maps (1990)
- Something for Everybody (2010)
- Now It Can Be Told: Devo at the Palace (1989)
- Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years (1992)
- DEV-O Live (1999)
- Devo Live 1980 (2005)
- Hardcore Devo Live! (2015)
albums
- E-Z Listening Disc (1987)
- Devo's Greatest Hits (1990)
- Devo's Greatest Misses (1990)
- Hardcore Devo: Volume One (1990)
- Hardcore Devo: Volume Two (1991)
- Hot Potatoes: The Best of Devo (1993)
- Adventures of the Smart Patrol (1996)
- Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology (2000)
- Recombo DNA (2000)
- This Is the Devo Box (2008)
- Something Else for Everybody (2013)
- 50 Years of De-Evolution 1973–2023 (2023)
- B Stiff (1977)
- Mechanical Man (1978)
- DEV-O Live (1981)
- Theme from Doctor Detroit (1983)
- Watch Us Work It (2008)
- Song Study (2010)
- "Mongoloid"
- "Jocko Homo"
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- "Be Stiff"
- "Secret Agent Man"
- "Girl U Want"
- "Whip It"
- "Freedom of Choice"
- "Through Being Cool"
- "Beautiful World"
- "Working in the Coal Mine"
- "Peek-a-Boo!"
- "That's Good"
- "Are You Experienced?"
- "Here to Go"
- "Disco Dancer"
- "Watch Us Work It"
releases
articles
- Discography
- Characters (Booji Boy
- General Boy)
- Church of the SubGenius
- Devo 2.0
- Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol
- Energy dome
- Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers
- Mutato Muzika
- The Beginning Was the End
- "Dare to Be Stupid"
- "The Mutants Are Revolting"